Columbia University Press: 2355 books
Taming the Wild Horse
An Annotated Translation and Study of the Daoist Horse Taming Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In thirteenth-century China, a Daoist monk named Gao Daokuan (1195-1277) composed a series of illustrated poems and accompanying verse commentary known as the Daoist Horse Taming Pictures. In this annotated translation and study, Louis Komjathy argues that this virtually unknown text offers unique...
Uptown Conversation
The New Jazz Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2004
Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bearden's stage and costume designs for Alvin Ailey and Dianne McIntyre; Stanley Crouch stirring his high-powered essays in a room where a drumkit stands at the center: from the perspective of the new jazz studies, jazz is not only a music...
by Songfen Guo
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Guo Songfen's short stories are masterful psychological portraits that play with the echoes of history and the nature of identity. One of the few modernists to truly capture the fallout from such events as the February 28th Incident and the White Terror, Guo Songfen illuminates the quiet core of his...
by Minae Mizumura
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2003
Du Fu (712–777) has been called China's greatest poet, and some call him the greatest nonepic, nondramatic poet whose writings survive in any language. Du Fu excelled in a great variety of poetic forms, showing a richness of language ranging from elegant to colloquial, from allusive to direct. His...
by Pingali Suranna
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2002
Composed in the mid-sixteenth century, The Sound of the Kiss, or The Story That Must Never Be Told, could be considered the first novel written in South Asia. Telugu, the language spoken in today's Andhra Pradesh region of southern India, has a classical literary tradition extending over a thousand...
Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds
A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds is a collection of twenty-five medieval Japanese tales of border crossings and the fantastic, featuring demons, samurai, talking animals, amorous plants, and journeys to supernatural realms. The most comprehensive compendium of short medieval Japanese fiction in...
Wondrous Brutal Fictions
Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Wondrous Brutal Fictions presents eight seminal works from the seventeenth-century Japanese sekkyo and ko-joruri puppet theaters, many translated into English for the first time. Both poignant and disturbing, they range from stories of cruelty and brutality to tales of love, charity, and outstanding...
Ground Zero, Nagasaki
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Set in contemporary Nagasaki, the six short stories in this collection draw a chilling portrait of the ongoing trauma of the detonation of the atomic bomb. Whether they experienced the destruction of the city directly or heard about it from survivors, the characters in these tales filter their pain...
Kiku's Prayer
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Kiku's Prayer is told through the eyes of Kiku, a self-assured young woman from a rural Japanese village who falls in love with Seikichi, a devoted Catholic man. Practicing a faith still banned by the government, Seikichi is imprisoned but refuses to recant under torture. Kiku's efforts to reconcile...
Light and Dark
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Light and Dark, Natsume Soseki's longest novel and masterpiece, although unfinished, is a minutely observed study of haute-bourgeois manners on the eve of World War I. It is also a psychological portrait of a new marriage that achieves a depth and exactitude of character revelation that had no precedent...
Pakistan at the Crossroads
Domestic Dynamics and External Pressures
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
In Pakistan at the Crossroads, top international scholars assess Pakistan's politics and economics and the challenges faced by its civil and military leaders domestically and diplomatically. Contributors examine the state's handling of internal threats, tensions between civilians and the military,...
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow
A Novel of Shanghai
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2008
Set in post-World War II Shanghai, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the longtong, the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods.
Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of 1940s Hollywood, Wang Qiyao seeks fame in...
Soldier Dead
How We Recover, Identify, Bury, and Honor Our Military Fallen
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2005
What happens to members of the United States Armed Forces after they die? Why do soldiers endanger their lives to recover the remains of their comrades? Why does the military spend enormous resources and risk further fatalities to recover the bodies of the fallen, even decades after the cessation...